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Show 1 SALT LAKE SALT LAKERS ON TRADEJOURNEY Mountain Home, Ida., Sep. 10. Reveille at 6 o'clock as thx sun rose from behind the Sawtooth range opened open-ed the first day of tho Salt Lake pilgrims pil-grims in Idaho yesterday morning. Last night, after a whole-hearted rc-coptlon rc-coptlon In Caldwell, tho travelers aro resting in preparation for an other busy day today. Nino Idaho cities with a combined population of 20,000, woro visited during the day. In over one tho reception accorded tho Salt Lakers was so cordial that they found themselves wondering why thoy had not come sooner and regretting that they could not stay longor. Most of tho Salt Lakers yeatordaj had their first vision of the Snake river Talloy and thereby acquired an impression of the value of this stream to the stato of Idaho. They were told that thD BnaUe river rises In the Yellowstone Yel-lowstone park country, flows through the southeastern tier of Idaho counties, coun-ties, thence to the contral portion of the state to the "panhandle" and on to Its junction with the Columbia below be-low Riparla. Included also In this first day's Journeying Jour-neying through Utah's sister Btate was a view of the Little and Big Wood river valleys. The excursionist saw Silver creek, famed beyond tho confines con-fines of tho nation as a fishing stream, and they passed the siding whero.dur-ing whero.dur-ing the later years of his life, Jay Gould was wont to spend his summers with his family, setting his special train in the heart of a country abounding abound-ing in fish and game. In tho caravan that left Salt Lako Sunday nllght woro sovoral members of tho Commercial club party that four years ago passed through the same territory covered Sunday. These had hoard of the remarkable development develop-ment that had taken place in southern Idaho during the last decado. They know that the census figures showed an increase of nearly 120 per cent in the population of this section of the state, but thoy had failed to grasp tho real significance of the figures. These visitors yesterday saw a wilderness wil-derness of sagebrush supplanted by hundreds of happy homes. Ther found that the howl of the wolf apd the coyote, had been replaced by the laughter of happy children, that the gray of tho sagebrush and the green tint of the greasewood had given way to broad acres of alfalfa, of wheat, of oats, rye and all the products of the temperate zone, and that cities having hav-ing all the comforts and conveniences of eastern towns of far larger population popula-tion had been builded In the desert's heart |